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English
Etymology
From nigger + skin.
Noun
niggerskin (plural niggerskins)
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person's skin.
1944, Sylvestre Cornelius Watkins, Anthology of American Negro Literature (Modern library of the world's best books), Modern Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 352:A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins.
2000 December 5, Byker, “Funeral business booms in kaffir country”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):Those with nothing to hock could always sell their loved one's hide to a
tannery for the niggerskin trade....
2010, Phil Cummings, Sin City High, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 395:”I want to get me a nigger toe to hang from my rear view mirror! I thought about niggerskin fuckin' upholstery and maybe even scalping a few of these jigaboos and having my dashboard padded with nigger-hair but that means I'd have to be here all fuckin' day man and this fuckin' school bugs me.”
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, metonymically) A black person.
1976, Asian American Women, Asian American Women, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:The voices had begun to circle silently and secretly and purposefully. “You're from Jap-pan pan pan niggerskin, and you made Pearl Harbor where we got you. Rat-ta-tat-tat!”
1981, The Journalism Research Fellows Report: What Makes an Effective School?, Institute for Educational Leadership, →OCLC, page 91:So are many of the quiet, orderly scenes in the school's halls. Children come back from recess on the run, pushing and shoving. One child three days in a row yells, “Niggerskins, niggerskins,” at another who is foreign-born.
1999 September 17, nitro, “to all niggerskins,queerskins,and jewskins”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet):